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• Book writing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Anyone who decides to write a book must expect to invest a lot of time and effort without any guarantee of success. Books do not write themselves and they do not sell themselves. Authors write and promote their books.

  Dan Poynter

  Book, Writing, Effort

  Dan Poynter (2000). “Writing Nonfiction: Turning Thoughts Into Books”, Para Pub

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• The more you know about your opponents, the more you learn how to beat them. Where the holes open to run through, blocking schemes, even down to player tendencies and what hand they like to carry the ball with.

  Ray Lewis

  Running, Block, Player

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. June 3, 2004.

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• Using some economic issues to make one group of people, regardless of race or religion, the scapegoat for all the problems of the country is just the stupidest, and yet, the most creative propaganda scheme that you can come up with.

  Immortal Technique

  Country, Race, Issues

  "The Transcendence of Hip Hop - An Interview with Immortal Technique". Interview with Chris Grosso, theindiespiritualist.com. February 20, 2014.

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• In recent years, we've become enamored with our own past success. Lulled into complacency by the glitter of our own achievements. We've become accustomed to the title of Military Superpower, forgetting the qualities that got us there. We've become accustomed to our economic dominance in the world, forgetting that it wasn't reckless deals and get rich quick schemes that got us where we are, but hard work and smart ideas, quality products and wise investments.

  Barack Obama

  Wise, Military, Smart

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• No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is simple. You knock a man down and then have him arrested for assault. You kill a man and then hang the corpse.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Men, Simple, People

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• All through my life I never did believe in human measurement. Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size. I know the grand scheme of the world is beyond our brains to fathom, so I don't try, just let it in.

  Louise Erdrich

  Believe, Cutting, Feet

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.214, Odyssey Editions

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• In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.

  Lucille Clifton

  Different, Asking, Bigger

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• The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Self, Independence

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.111

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• The common law of chattels, that is to say, the law ultimately adopted by the King's courts for the regulation of disputes about the ownership and possession of goods, was, to be a substantial extent, a by-product of that new procedure which had been mainly introduced to perfect the feudal scheme of land law.

  Edward Jenks

  Kings, Law, Land

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• Many state governments have launched innovative steps such as Ladli Laxmi scheme of Madhya Pradesh, PDS reform scheme of Chattisgarh, computerization of land records in Karnataka, free computers to students passing 10th standard exams, pollution control efforts in Himachal, power sector reforms in Rajasthan and Mumbai - Pune Expressway in Maharashta. These excellent innovative schemes are examples of good governance.

  Narendra Modi

  Government, Land, Pollution Control

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• Temporary is all you're going to get with any kind of health care, except the health care I'm telling you about. That's eternal health care, and it's free... I've opted to go with eternal health care instead of blowing money on these insurance schemes.

  Phil Robertson

  Care, Kind, Eternal

  "'Duck Dynasty' Star Advises Men to Marry Teenage Girls" by Michael Rothman, abcnews.go.com. December 31, 2013.

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• I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.

  Bobby Seale

  Black, Panthers, Raises

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• Jimmy Carter, who embraced all manner of schemes to make America a second or third-rate country, came down so squarely in favor of the double nickel [the 55 mph National Speed Limit]...This is the same Jimmy Carter whose limosine with him in it, just a little later in his presidency, was timed at an average of 72 mph for the 21.5 mile trip from Detroit Metro to the Detroit Plaza Hotel. He didn't want to be late for a campaign appearance.

  Patrick Bedard

  Country, America, Mph

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• The virtue of the civil partnerships scheme lay in the attempt to treat the needs of gay and lesbian couples as what they are, not to bundle them into some other category.

  John Sentamu

  Couple, Gay, Needs

  "Redefining marriage to include same-sex couples would benefit nobody" by John Sentamu, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2012.

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• To plan secretly, to move surreptitiously, to foil the enemy's intentions and balk his schemes, so that at last the day may be won without shedding a drop of blood.

  Sun Tzu

  Moving, Blood, Enemy

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.19, Xist Publishing

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• Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes.

  Aaron Klein

  Ebola, Long, Republican

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• One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, 'Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!' This should be one's practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Attitude, Practice, Strange

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• Sometimes, people forget my record of fiscal conservatism on major issues in the state legislature. The greatest example is my voting against the pension borrowing scheme in 1997.

  Leonard Lance

  Issues, People, Voting

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• If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I will, I could not produce a better scheme of life than now prevails, I would be ashamed of my efforts and consider my work a humiliating failure.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Effort, Atheism, Would Be

  Joseph Lewis, Robert Green Ingersoll (1957). “Ingersoll the Magnificent: To which Has Been Added a Special Arrangement of Some Gems from Ingersoll for Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage”

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• You belong in the scheme of the universe. There's nothing to be afraid of. You are Safe.

  Deepak Chopra

  Soul, Safe, Universe

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• I was dupedby the Secretary of the treasury [Alexander Hamilton], and made a fool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood by me; and of all the errors of my political life, this has occasioned the deepest regret.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Regret, Errors, Political

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• I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Men, Ideas, Long

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• Every people should be the originators of their own destiny, the projectors of their own schemes, and creators of the events that lead to their destiny -- the consummation of their own desires.

  Martin Delany

  Destiny, People, Desire

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• We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change it, bit by bit, plank by plank, though meanwhile there is nothing to carry us along but the evolving conceptual scheme itself. The philosopher's task was well compared by Neurath to that of a mariner who must rebuild his ship on the open sea.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Philosophical, Sea, Ships

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• Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of physics;we adopt, at least insofar as we are reasonable, the simplest conceptual scheme into which the disordered fragments of raw experience can be fitted and arranged.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Acceptance, Thinking, Ontology

  Willard Van Orman Quine, Roger F. Gibson (2004). “Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine”, p.190, Harvard University Press

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